On Tuesday night Australias second-stringers played Leicester Tigers at Welford Road as the English side hoped to grab another big scalp to add to their already impressive list. Australia came from behind though, taking 26-15 victory.

Speedster
Lachie Turner
scored early in the game before Leicesters Billy Tweletrees kicked them back into the game with five successful penalties. The tourists stuck at it though and thanks to the boot of Berrick Barners, and a late try from
Scott Higginbotham
, they managed to avoid a repeat of what the
Tigers did to South Africa
last year.

"We are delighted with the win," said coach Robbie Deans. "This is the nearest our young side can get to a Test match. You can't replicate this on the training ground. Seven of our guys put on the jersey for the first time," he added.

Richard Cockerill
was naturally disappointed that his Leicester side couldnt hang onto the lead they earned early in the second half.

"It was a fierce contest, we gave them an early lead but we got right back in it. The momentum was with us, we were 15-13 up and we should have closed the game out and in the end the scoreline was too heavily in their favour," the former England hooker said.

Loose forward Higginbotham scored a controversial late try that made the scoreline look more comfortable than it probably was for the Aussies. The Wallabies will face England at Twickenham this weekend though with added confidence within the squad.

Please check out RD's latest blog on the Telegraph website. It includes some thoughts about the passed weekend's goings on, as well as a few links to the best recent videos here on Rugbydump.
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Leicester and Harlequins traditionally used letters instead of numbers.
The front row used to be called the ABC club.
This changed in the early '90s. I don't remember if it was to do with leagues or professionalism but some stuffed shirt decided that they weren't allowed to have their tradition any more.

The most interesting thing about watching this game was how Healey went from considered analyst to raging Tigers fanboy when it looked like they had a chance of winning. He ended up whinging on and on about some minor Oz infringements and ignoring Chuter's punch which should have been a red card.

Great hands for Australia's first try. The Aus backs look so sharp now. Didn't see the game - did Leicester manage to pressure them up front at all?

Just realised that Aus will be playing a much-weakened Munster with all the internationals shorn off - disappointing, I saw a full-strength Munster beat Aus in 1992 back in the shamateur days. Very long odds against that happening nowadays with a second string team :(

The letters - All teams used to play in letters,but over time only Leicester and Bristol played with them.Eventually the game became pro and the tv companies insisted all teams applied the same id so the "newcomers" to the game could workout who should be where.Leicester show the letters on the front of the current strip ,below the badge ,as a reminder of the clubs past history and wore them on the back for the aussie game for the same reason.Bristol wore letters for one season more than Tigers because of relegation - Less time on the Tv !

The last foot thing only applies to people engaged in the ruck.
All the Leicster players had lost their feet. The ball was there to be played, if it had been the other way round no one would ahve complained.
It's just bias commentating.

I like it how the commentators still mention beating the "world champions"... the only thing the Tigers beat was a team filled with politically selected players along with Mr. I can't handle any sort of pressure kicks Ruan Pienaar.

Btw, does anyone else just really want to punch Scott Higginbottom? Such an unlikeable person.

I can't believe how one eyed that commentator was, what a nob.
He's completely wrong too, the last foot only applies to people who are bound to the ruck, not to some guy who's lying on the ground with his feet sticking out the back of the ruck.
Jesus, commentator, learn the goddamn rules.
Leiscter lost that ruck, the ball popped out and not one of them was on their feet to protect the ball.
So the ball was out, Australia had every right to the ball.

The ball was out, the commentator clearly was just favouring leicester cuz he's a bad commentator.
At least make an attempt to be a little bit neutral.
If anything Leicester should have been penalised for all being off their feet at the breakdown. All the Aussies were on theirs.

Castro wasn't involved, he's away with the Italian camp I believe.
It was two English props, Julian White was one.
The Australian scrum had no problem at all actually, James Slipper in particular was very good.
Not one penalty was conceded by Australia at scrum time, and they weren't backpeddaling at all.
The truth is that they got beaten by Wales at scrum time primarily because they were missing Barnes' calls.
They were simply engaging after Wales did every time, Wales just beat them to the engagement call.

But English commentators criticise the opposition unfairly and then heap praise on the Poms just because they managed to dress the same or run in the same direction. "Now, Banahan.. what can HE do?" The answer is nothing much but the commentators make it sound like he's Jonah Lomu or something.

Well the commentator that was being particularly biased was Austin Healy, a former Leicester Tiger player, so to be fair he was always going to be a wee bit bias, but the fact he kept on going on about it was the f*cking annoying part.

Also, why do Australians always have to have names like Bazza? Jono, Marto, Clarkie, Kernsie etc. Are you that childish that you have to give every single one of your MAAAATES a little nick name? Hey Bazza? Or is it Bazzie... or Bazzo? LMFAO, you just got owned big time.

Nice to hear of a competitive midweek tour game methinks...Did Lecicester manage to string together any incisive breaks? (albeit not scoring a try)..

What is it with all the sad trolls on this site insulting the English, Aussies, Kiwis and SA. Why don't you all go an insult single brain-celled people commenting on youtube. It will be like hanging out with your own families......

Flinto, while i appreciate your attempts at dismissing the idiotic comments on the site, without trying to sound like a douche, could i ask that express a little more sophistication in your references to differently-abled people?

You can't be more than 4 yrs old so you didn't read that book, mummy read it to you. Your fun facts are wrong, your desperation to insult somebody you don't even know is pathetic. What a little jerk you are. Owned.

Canadian Content you don't know what you're talking about. I would most likely assume that this is due to the fact that you're probably, as your name suggests, Canadian and as a result know next to nothing about the intricacies of the game.

This year has seen much more attractive rugby played because the breakdown laws lie in favour of the attacking team, as they should. Your argument of "The game needs more competition for breakdown" was the exact kind of dimwitted logic that lead to arguably the worst rugby ever played in the professional era over the last 3 years.